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Originally Posted by 67TIGER

About 2 years ago we had a family of deer meet in our front yard. This was late in the morning (about 10:30 AM) and they looked right at us taking their picture through the front window, less than 10 feet away.

Ever have a male charge you during the rut??

Not fun...thought he was going to jump on our deck and blast through the french doors like you see on TV sometimes.

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Originally Posted by vertigto

Ever have a male charge you during the rut??

Not fun...thought he was going to jump on our deck and blast through the french doors like you see on TV sometimes.

In The early 90s, late October, I was driving the company van in the Oil City area of PA about 3 PM. I was in a wooded area on 2 lane blacktop and heard a huge thump on the passenger side of the van. I looked in the mirror and saw a buck going head over heels along the side of the road, the car behind me swerved to avoid the deer. As soon as he stops rolling he gets up and shakes it off, then runs back into the woods.

Near as I can figure by the small dent on the quarter, he charged the van, and came out on the losing end, at least by my account.......

When I lived in one of my past homes built on the edge of a 200 acre wooded tract, we used to have deer grazing in the yard, just outside of the sliding patio doors, within 15 feet of the doors. As long as you didn't move quickly, they would keep on doing what they were doing. Never saw any bucks, just doe, and yearlings.

My father told me years ago of being in the woods during buck season, and building a fire because it was freezing cold. The doe would come right up fairly close to see what was going on, but he said you never saw a buck. He told me that deer are quite curious, and as long as you don't make any threatening moves they just look everything over.

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I see bobcats around here a bit. Not often, but often enough to know they're around here ll the time.

I was out waxing one of my cars back in September. The squirrels were making a racket running around in the trees that day. I kept hearing twigs crackling behind me, and thought to myself "damn the squirrels are really getting loud!" I finally look up and see this guy trying to sneak past me! He had gotten stuck below the rock ledge and was doing his best to tip toe by without me noticing him only about 25 feet away.